Step into the Heartstopper universe with Jamie and special guests Sydney from leading selfharm charity Harmless and Molly from queer youth charity The Proud Trust. This week we’re talking about Heartstopper Season 2, Episode 8 – Perfect. We chat our way through the episode, listening in to favourite moments as we go. I get serious with Sydney and talk about what self harm is, how to support someone who opens up about self harming and what future treatment might be like for Charlie. Content warnings - this show contains discussions about self harm, disordered eating and emotional abuse, listener discretion is advised. About Proper Full-On Gay Crisis Proper Full-On Gay Podcast is an LGBTQIA+ podcast which draws inspiration from Alice Oseman’s graphic novels & Netflix series Heartstopper. Each week guest hosts from the UK & Irelands leading LGBTQIA+ Youth Organisations join the show to relive favourite Heartstopper moments and bring the experiences of our favourite characters to life in the real world. We explore the challenges that queer youth overcome and talk about the work that our partner organisations do to support young people around the world. Episode Description From Wikipedia: Elle is accepted into Lambert; Tao says he has gotten over his envy and Elle says she is still undecided on Lambert. Isaac discovers he is asexual. Prior to leaving Truham, Ben asks Charlie to forgive his past actions, but Charlie refuses, noting that Ben's apology merely demands self-validation. During a dinner at the Nelson home with the Nelsons and Springs, Nick confronts David for his bullying and his father for being uninterested in his life. Nick tells his father that Charlie is his boyfriend. His father apologises and says he likes Charlie, before going back to Paris. Darcy has an argument with her homophobic mother and leaves her home. About Heartstopper: Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series on Netflix, written and created by Alice Oseman and based on her webcomic and graphic novel of the same name. The series primarily tells the story of Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), a gay schoolboy who falls in love with classmate Nick Nelson (Kit Connor), whom he sits next to in his new form. It also explores the lives of their friends Tao Xu (William Gao), Elle Argent (Yasmin Finney), Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan), Tara Jones (Corinna Brown) and Darcy Olsson (Kizzy Edgell). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/properfullongaypodcast/message